Re: MAILING LABELS etc.

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:02 +0530, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
> Is it possible to generate non-columnar reports (like mailing labels)
> using rlib? if so, what would the xml look like? I am sorry if this has
> been asked before but I looked around in the list archives and could not
> find something.
> Thanks in advance
> Pramathesh

Yes it is.

You need to get creative in your Field Details.  Carol Fouse put this
together a little while ago.

The trick is using the HorizontalLine with a size of XXX in order to
create the correct white space between rows


    <FieldDetails>
      <Output>
       <Line>
         <literal width="100" col="1"> </literal>
       </Line>
      <HorizontalLine size="20" bgcolor="'White'"/>
        <Line>
          <field value="name1" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
          <field value="name2" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
        </Line>
        <Line>
          <field value="line21" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
          <field value="line22" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
        </Line>
        <Line>
          <field value="line31" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
          <field value="line32" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
        </Line>
        <Line>
          <field value="line41" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
          <field value="line42" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
        </Line>
        <Line>
          <field value="line51" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
          <field value="line52" width="44" align="left" col="1"/>
        </Line>
      <HorizontalLine size="10" bgcolor="'White'"/>
      </Output>
    </FieldDetails>



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